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A Tight Election May Be Tangled in Legal Battles
In the last few weeks, nearly a dozen federal and state court decisions on early voting, provisional ballots and voter ID requirements have driven the rules in conflicting directions, …
The Biggest Economic Challenge of Obama’s Second Term
Not even the Jobs Act will be enough to boost the anemic recovery. In January, he's got to do something big, like a new WPA or CCC.
Tar Sands Blockade Strikes Again, But TransCanada Thinks It Can Just Reroute
Does TransCanada really think that 1,200 people were arrested at the White House just to protest the pipeline route?
Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn?
Despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American …
Europe’s Adjustment: The Misadventures of Austerity
Austerity to reduce spending and decrease the need for imports, and liberalization reforms to reduce real wages and promote internal devaluation have been going on for a while in …
European Debt Dominos
So, as everyone knows, the ECB came out yesterday with its latest plan to stem the creeping European sovereign debt crisis.
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Strike Is the Best Lesson Chicago Teachers Union Could Have Planned
Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.
Effectuating Our National Labor Policy
Two pending National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases on graduate student workers provide an opportunity to develop effective strategies to respond to attacks on employee rights under National Labor …
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Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution
This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems …
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Leaving the GOP and Joining the Reality-Based Community: How I Learned to Stop Loving the Bombs
This is the story of how in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and later in Iraq, I discovered that what I believed to be the full spectrum of reality …